"Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic……" — Frans de Waal
"Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for."
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86 Quotes by Frans de Waal
Frans de Waal has 86 quotes on this site.
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If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.
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Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions.…
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As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler…
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The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give…
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You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.
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The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with…
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If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they…
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Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between…
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I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or…
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Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.
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We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in…
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If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is…
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More Cooperative Quotes
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Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family…
— Steven Wilson
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Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel…
— Roger Caras
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If a blending of individualism and of cooperative participation is a prerequisite to a democratic solution of the problems of…
— Marshall Field
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The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.
— Matt Ridley
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The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal…
— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
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The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.…
— Black Elk
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For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and…
— Hillary Clinton
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Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher.…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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We cannot leap into world government through one quick step.... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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If people work together, if they can keep a cooperative spirit and use their ingenuity and balance it all with…
— Harold Ramis
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These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and…
— E. O. Wilson
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